Coding Music
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I wanted to share a brilliant online station which plays pretty relaxing and cool music suitable for coding and office work: SomaFM - Groove Salad
It's commercial free. What music do you code on? Do you listen to music when working?

I like listening to minimalistic electronic/electronica music like Kalkbrenner, Apparat, Trentemoller etc. There aren't any vocals (most of the time) as I am unable to focus when somebody is singing or speaking

For coding rushes (dealing with a lot of tedious tasks that require little thought) I'm preferring hardcore (in the style of Madball, Hatebreed, D.B.D. and Biohazard) or speed- and deathmetal. Might shift over to grdincore or goregrind depending on my mood.

During design phases, I'm mostly falling back to either electronic or industrial music (KMFDM, Laibach, Zavod, Feindflug). Relaxed coding sessions are mostly accompanied by punk-rock and ska of various flavours. I found Distemper working quite well in this context.

programmer /ˈprəʊgramə/, noun: a device that converts ►coffee into ►code

I either listen to top100station.radio.de (Chartradio) or sunshine-live.radio.de (Electro, Dance, House, Minimal, Hands Up or even Charts - depends on the current time of day).
Though the genre is pretty different I like both of them equal but now that the "Mix Mission 2012" has started on sunshine-live this will be my primary station until next year.

He-he. I'm just scrobbling everything i listen and often i'm tasting different music. Scrobbling doesn't means that i like Skrillex, Die Antwoord or something else. Personal popular singers list is far more objective. ;-)